Summary: Please don't kill me. I know that I should have had this up a long time ago but I really had to start from stratch with story as well as my other stories. Hopefully the next chapter will be up before you know it and the insane notion to kill me will have passed like a summer breeze. Thank you to all that are still reading and loving my story, I really appreciate it.

Disclaimer: Just to remind you I don't owned Charmed but I do own the fabulous characters that you didn't see on the show. Don't you just hate me right now, I know I would.

Chapter 19-Letting the Pieces Fall into Place

Phoebe made it the manor in record time only to find it empty. Rushing upstairs to the attic, she opened the Book of Shadows and found what she was looking for, a summoning spell.

"Little people that I seek, come through in my time of need, for your skills to make a bed, a place to rest the sleeping dead."

As soon as the words left her mouth, a small man appeared before her looking extremely angry.

"What do you want?"

"I think you know what I want." Phoebe answered quickly as she turned the book around so the little man could see the picture that was on the page. "The real question is will you do it."

"Why should I?" the grumpy man asked as he crossed his arms. "There's nothing in it for me."

"Because my sisters and I could really use your help and I know that you…all of you can help us so will you do it. Please."

The little man looked at Phoebe before uncrossing his arms and looking back at the book. Sighing, he nodded his head yes and disappeared from sight.

"Out of all the dwarves I had to get grumpy." Phoebe mumbled after the man left and she turned her attention to calling for her sisters. There was too much to do, too much at stake, and she needed all the help she could get.

It didn't take long for Paige or the kids to sense where Piper was and immediately orb to her. It was there that Paige found her older sister sitting in a small corner in the room, tears running down her face while Jeff was lying on the floor unconscious.

"Piper-" Paige called out, running over to her and pulling her into a hug, the children not far behind. "Piper can you hear me."

"He's dead." was all Piper whispered as she continued crying. Wyatt, Chris, and Melinda continued to cry as they watched their mother cry. It was then that they knew Melinda was telling the truth. If their mother was admitting that their was dead then there was no hope for him at all.

Melinda could no longer contain herself and ran to her mother, putting her arms around her and crying on her shoulder. "Mom, I tried to save him but I couldn't."

"What-"

"I had a vision…a vision about Dad getting shot but it was to late. By the time I got there he was…he was already dying and I couldn't stop it but I tried really hard-"

"It's not your fault sweetheart-" Paige tried to reassure her niece.

"But I should have been able to save him." Melinda cried as she held her mother tighter. "I got the vision for a reason."

"Melinda you can't always-"

"Wyatt stop it."

Piper, Paige, and Melinda looked over to see Wyatt kicking Jeff in his stomach while Chris tried his best to hold his brother back. The girls could see Jeff had awoken with blood dripping from the side of his mouth.

Paige jumped up and helped Chris hold back his older brother as he tried to attack Jeff again, this time trying to use his powers as well.

"Wyatt stop it right now."

"Not until he pays for what he's done." Wyatt growled as he pushed Chris and Paige off him and telekinetically threw Jeff across the room.

"Bed." Paige called out from the floor, directing Jeff to land on the bed instead of hitting the wall. "Wyatt you're not supposed to use your powers this way."

"And who's going to stop me." Wyatt shouted as he waved his hand again, this time Paige didn't say anything and Jeff hit the dresser on the other side of the room.

"Wyatt Matthew Halliwell you will stop that this instant." Piper yelled at her oldest son.

Wyatt turned to see his mother standing up, the rest of the family by her side. Though her eyes were red from tears it didn't hide the angry blazing in them. His mother just lost the love of her life; she should be the one wanting Geoffrey dead and yet she was the one telling him to stop.

"Mom-"

"Stop this Wyatt." Piper whispered as she walked up to her son and pulled him into a hug. "Killing him won't erase the pain.'

"But what about dad, he's dead because of that bastard."

"I know sweetie but your father would not want you to do this. He would want to be proud of you and taking the life of another would not make him proud."

Wyatt couldn't hold back the tears any longer as he wrapped his arms around his mother. No matter how bad he wanted Geoffrey to die he couldn't be the one responsible for taking his life.

"I'm sorry mom."

"It's not your fault sweetie."

"Who are you people?"

They turned to see a badly beaten Jeff clutching his side as he tried to stand up. His entire face was swollen as blood dripped down the side of his face.

"We're people who are going to make your life a living hell." Chris hissed as he walked over to Jeff and punched him hard in the face. He didn't do anything else as he walked away, leaving the beaten man a crumpled mess on the floor.

"We need to call Darrel and tell him we have his murder." Piper whispered as she pulled all three of her children into a hug. "And then we need to make some arrangements-"

Paige nodded, not needed her sister to say anything else as she walked over to grab Jeff's hand. "Phoebe's calling me from the manor." Paige replied suddenly looking up towards the ceiling. "It's sounds like an emergency."

"What could be more important then taking this murderer to the police?"

"I don't know but she is screaming my name off so I need to see what she wants."

"Okay then lets go." Piper whispered as she grabbed Wyatt's hand and the four of them orbed off to the manor with Paige and Jeff not far behind.

"Aunt Phoebe-"

"I know all about Leo which is why I called you."

"Wait, how do you know?" Melinda asked, "Did you have a vision too?"

"Not exactly."

"What do you mean not exactly?"

"Look I don't have time to explain it right now but I will, you just have to trust me." Phoebe replied as she walked up to her younger sister and held out her hand. "We need to leave immediately."

"And where are we going?"

"We have to get to the medical examiner's before they have a chance to do their autopsy on Leo."

"Phoebe-"

"I need some of your white lighter dust." Phoebe continued to talk, ignoring whatever Piper w as about to ask her.

"Why do you need it?"

"Because we have wipe everyone's memory who has seen Leo's dead body and then we are bringing Leo's body back here."

"Phoebe you're not making any sense."

"Listen to me, I know I sound crazy but you have to trust me." Phoebe pleaded with her sisters. Even though she wanted to tell her sisters the truth about what was going on she couldn't, not yet but she needed them to go along with her. "Please we don't have much time."

Piper looked at Phoebe once more before turning her attention back to Paige and nodded her head in her direction. She didn't know exactly what her sister was trying to do but her heart told her to trust her.

"Good. Okay when we get there Piper you're going to have to freeze the room, Paige you dust everyone, and I'll gather all the records. Got it."

"What about us?" Melinda asked after her aunt gave everyone their jobs to do once they arrived at their destination.

"You're going to stay here at the manor. I have some people that are going to come by here."

"But we want to go with you." Chris shouted.

"No you will stay here." Piper ordered her three kids. "Call Daryl, tell him that Jeff is here and, don't follow us."

Wyatt, Chris, and Melinda obeyed their mother and watched as the three women orbed out of sight. Not wanting to do anything else, they simply hugged each other and waited for them to return.

The medical examiner turned on his tape recorder as he stared at the body in front of him. It was the one thing he hated about his profession, seeing all the people who didn't deserve to die with the bastards who should be dead were the ones walking around freely.

Sighing, he picked up his chart and began examining the body.

"Victim is forty-three year old Caucasian male who died of several gunshot wounds to the body. Time of death nine-forty seven p.m. There were three gunshot wounds to the body, two in the chest region and one shot in the abdomen. The first rounds penetrated the left lung and the shot to the abdomen tore through the spleen, causing the victim to lose a large amount of blood and the left lung to collapse. The name of the victim-"

The medical examiner looked up to see three women appear out of nowhere and into his lab. "What the hell-"

Piper said nothing as she lifted up her hands and froze the examiner on sight and walked over to Leo. She couldn't turn her eyes away from the man she pledged to spend the rest of her life with lifeless on the cold medical table. His body was now pale and still covered partial in his own blood.

"Leo." was all she could whispered as she ran her fingers through his hair. Tears fell down her cheeks as she looked down on her husband.

Paige and Phoebe remained silent as they did their jobs. Paige went over to the doctor and blew some memory dust into his face while Phoebe removed the tape from the tape recorder and the notes from the clipboard.

"Okay that's everything."

"Piper it's time to go."

"What are doing Phoebe?" Piper cried as she looked up at her sisters, confusion in her eyes, "Why are we doing this?"

"Because his destiny is not over yet." Phoebe replied as she pushed Piper's back from over her eyes. "Someone very special came to me and told me that."

"Who-"

"Guys the freeze is going to wear off soon." Paige interrupted the two of them.

"Piper we need to go now."

"What about Leo?"

"We're going to take him with us but first…let the object of objection become but a dream as I caused the seen to be unseen."

As soon the spell performed it's purpose the medical area became cleaned and Leo's body no longer looked like he was dead. All the blood on his body cleared up and the wounds disappeared. The pale skin disappeared as well leaving him looking like he was in a deep sleep instead of dead.

"Phoebe-"

"Okay Paige grab his hand and orb us back home."

Paige said nothing, doing what she was told and the four of them disappeared from sight just as the medical examiner unfroze.

"What am I doing here?" the man asked himself as he looked around the clean room with no body. Shrugging, he grabbed his things and made his way out of the door decided to call it a night.

Piper and Phoebe, minus Paige who opted to place Leo on the bed in Piper's room, arrived in the attic to see the children standing by the book of shadows gazing at a sight in front of them. The kids turned around to see their parents

"What the hell is going on?"

"I don't know."

"Hey Piper, long time no see." one of the little men said as the sisters came forward to see the scene in front of them.

"Back at you." Piper nodded as she looked at the scene in front her. In the middle of the room stood seven little men hard at work making what appeared to be a glass coffin. The men seemed familiar to her because they were the same men that built Paige her coffin when she was under the witch's spell. "Phoebe what are they doing, here?"

"What does it look like, we're making a coffin." the one that spoke to Phoebe earlier replied looking up at Piper giving her an angry look. "And if you want us to finish in time you then stop pestering us."

"Do you have to be so grumpy?" Phoebe asked the man only to have him shrug before responding.

"Yes?" was what the little man replied as he turned back to finish what he was doing.

"Okay." Paige whistled as she moved away from the dwarves and back towards the children.

"Phoebe what are they doing here."

"They're building a coffin Paige. I thought we already established that."

"I get that but what I don't get is why they are building a coffin in the middle of our attic."

"I guess I can tell you now. I was told to call them because they can preserved the dead."

"You're not saying what I think you're saying, are you?"

"Yes I am."

"You want to keep a preserved Leo in the attic." Paige asked confused.

"Well yes but not forever, just until the angel of destiny brings back his soul."

"What." everyone in the attic began to shout as they looked at Phoebe.

"What does the angel of destiny have to do with everything?"

"The person that told me to do this said that Leo was never meant to fall from grace, that he was always meant to stay a white lighter. Just like he was always meant to fall in love with you and conceive Wyatt, Chris, and Melinda but the Elders were always against it."

"But what about the prophecy that foresaw the birth of Wyatt, they had to believe that Piper and Leo loved each other if they sent us that unicorn."

"Oh they believed that Wyatt was going to be a powerful baby but they always assumed that Leo and Piper would never last. That in the end he would leave her and go back to his calling."

"But we proved them wrong." Piper hissed.

"Yes you did, on numerous occasions but it didn't stop the Elders from thinking. They wanted Leo back so bad that when the opportunity arose to get, they went all in."

"But what does the angel of destiny have to do with anything." Chris asked, confused about what was going on.

"She had a vision of her own about what would happen if Leo died and it wasn't pretty."

"What was it?"

"That is something I don't know but it has to be pretty bad if the angel of destiny gets involved."

"So what do we do."

"Well first we have to-" Phoebe started to say when the sound of the attic door being pushed open and Darryl came through it pointing his gun.

"Piper, Paige, Phoebe!" Darryl shouted when he came in. "Where is he?"

They were so caught up in the conversation that Jeff being in the room with them had been completely forgotten. "Right over there." Paige pointed when she saw his body in the corner tied up with rope unconscious. "Wyatt-"

"I didn't touch him I swear-"

"It was me." Chris answered, interrupting his brother. "I just used a spell to put him to sleep. It was the only way to keep him quiet when the seven dwarfs came in."

"Seven dwarfs-"

"We preferred to be called little people." one of the dwarfs screeched, "Jeez, does no body read the newsletters."

"I'm sorry…little people." Darryl stuttered and put down his gun. "You have got to be kidding me."

"You know Darryl, you known us for a long time now and one would think you would be used to this already."

"I know but it's not everyday you see the little people from Snow White but that's beside the point. I came here to pick up the suspect."

"We know but we have a bigger problem."

"Like-"

"Like Leo's dead body being in Piper's bedroom while we wait for his glass coffin to be built."

"What!"

"Yeah we kinda stole his body from the coroner's but we have a good reason." Paige replied.

"A good reason. I have cops who arrived at the scene and have already written reports. Not to mention the EMT's and the doctor that pronounced him dead and you're telling me that you have his body but it's for a good reason."

"Yes."

"Are you going to tell why?"

"Let's just say that Leo's destiny isn't over yet."

"Good enough for me." Darryl sighed, "What do you want me to do?"

"You're going to take Paige to the police station and point out every officer that arrived at the scene and Paige is going to dust them."

"And the dust will-"

"Make them forget about everything that happened."

"Don't forget about Thomas, he was there too."

"No need to find me, I'm already here."

Everyone turned around to see Thomas standing at the door still dressed in the clothes he had on earlier. His expression, shocked, as he looked around the room and noticed the little men in the corner of the attic building something. "I see the whole gang's here."

"Could this night get any worse." Melinda whispered to her brothers as the detective came in amazed at what he saw.

Thank you for reading this and I hoped it was everything you wanted it to be. I promise that I will get the next chapter up as soon as I can. I don't wait you guys waiting any longer for this story to be finished. Please bear with me and I hope I can live you guys expectations. Thanks

"Ricka"

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